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by itsboring 3y ago
As a kid, when people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said programmer. So that’s what I did. The money vs. passion thing rings true, but at the same time, I’ve found that channeling passion to my employer doesn’t really r
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by itsboring 3y ago
Whoa, is this why The Bobs wanted to promote Peter?
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by itsboring 3y ago
At least flipping burgers you don’t have to have a morning call where you say, “Yesterday I flipped burgers, today I’m going to flip more burgers. No blockers.” Or a Jira user story titled “As a burger eater, I want to eat a burger that’s b
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by itsboring 3y ago
I hate to say it, but I think we (as in, developers) did this to ourselves, or we were at least complicit. People like to think that these massive piles of abstractions we’ve built are for the benefit of future developers, but I’m starting
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by itsboring 3y ago
Checked my order history, the one I got was a “SCHLAGE FE575 PLY 626 ELA Plymouth Keypad Entry”. I don’t remember having any trouble installing this on an interior door (and I’m not very “handy” at all). That said, I don’t know much about d
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by itsboring 3y ago
I went a step further and installed a keypad lock on my office door. I mean, I’ll admit that there are simpler ways to keep the kids out, but it looks cool…
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by itsboring 3y ago
I’ve grown comfortable with the idea that the win32 API is simply a gaming runtime now. I’m okay with this situation because A) I don’t have to give up any performance (or at least none that I’ve been able to measure) and B) the Proton&#x2F
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by itsboring 3y ago
Seems like AI is becoming pretty effective at undoing the “lack of error” part…
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by itsboring 3y ago
I disagree. I don’t believe that distinction is relevant. My reasoning is that the large number of SteamOS users allows Valve to justify spending time and resources improving things like Mesa and amdgpu (edit: and of course Proton, which is
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by itsboring 3y ago
This feels like a double standard to me. If you exclude Steam Deck users because it comes with Linux by default, then you should also exclude all the people who bought laptops that come with Windows by default, no? They’re not Windows gamer
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by itsboring 3y ago
Wow, software 3D rendering must have really gotten fast then. I play all my Steam games on Linux using the open source amdgpu driver. Or maybe I just imagined all those extra frames in RDR2. Someone should tell Valve that the Steam Deck cou
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by itsboring 3y ago
We call them scabs.
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by itsboring 3y ago
Using mailing lists no less. I would contend that the Linux kernel is the most successful and prolific piece of software in the world.
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by itsboring 3y ago
Meh. I worked from home while we had a toddler and an infant, now a first grader and pre-schooler. I’m not going to claim it didn’t have its challenges, but even at its worst it was better than commuting. I did some of the best work of my c
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by itsboring 3y ago
I only care if software serves the user when I’m the user.
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by itsboring 3y ago
This is the real reason I like the idea of UBI. It’s not because I want to do nothing all day, it’s because I want to shift the power dynamic. For example, imagine a worker living paycheck-to-paycheck who needs their employer-provided healt
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by itsboring 3y ago
What, you’re not “Making the World a Better Place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols”? In seriousness, I wish there was more self-awareness like this in our field.
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by itsboring 3y ago
I’d like to add the phrase “solved problem”.
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by itsboring 3y ago
Used to dual boot, but with the combo of steam/proton and VFIO passthrough + looking glass, it’s been really solid to just run both at the same time. File sharing between the two is pretty easy in that case, because it’s just the usual
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by itsboring 4y ago
I still think there’s a big difference. If asked to speculate on the architecture of Sharepoint, my response would be “I have no earthly idea.” If pressed further for an answer, my response would be “It’s probably some over-complicated mess
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by itsboring 4y ago
Bob should master Crusader Kings III.
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by itsboring 4y ago
Leadership is a worthwhile activity for sure, but if “Bob” doesn’t get enjoyment/satisfaction out of it, then it could be perceived by him as more of a punishment.
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by itsboring 4y ago
I’m not sure it has to be one or the other extreme. Plenty of places have the “20% time” where you’re free to work in a self-directed way, learn about new stuff that interests you, etc. Maybe for this hypothetical Bob, that 20% is more like
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by itsboring 4y ago
Bob shouldn’t be working at a place where he’s only allowed to work on tasks that are assigned to him by a manager, and twiddle his thumbs when he has none. He should be able to create his own tasks, do some experiments, R&D, self-direc
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by itsboring 4y ago
Who cares?
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by itsboring 4y ago
Oh wow, that would drive me mad. That's one of those subtle human-machine interaction problems where sometimes people don't believe you (and maybe you start to doubt yourself even). And then people start throwing around studies sa
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by itsboring 4y ago
I agree, but I feel like discussions about latency always focus on competitive play, while for me at least, low input latency is important even for single-player FPS games. Before 144hz+ screens were popular, I’d turn off v-sync and deal wi
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by itsboring 4y ago
I agree with the other responses here, but they missed one reason: because it’s funny.
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by itsboring 7y ago
Worked at an office on 2nd and Pine for a few years - every summer, if you opened the windows, you’d get a steady wafting of crack pipe smoke coming in the building. You could tell if any cops were nearby because people outside would be sin
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by itsboring 9y ago
I’ve noticed this thing on social media lately where a single image is turned into like a 10-second video...of nothing but the still image (and sometimes stock background music). This is usually done by low-effort clickbait sites, but I don

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